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Saturday, August 16, 2014

THE PENTAGON HAS ADMITTED THAT ITS AIRSTRIKES AGAINST "ISIL" HAVE DONE NOTHING TO STOP ITS OVERALL MOMENTUM.

Aug 11, 2014U.S. airstrikes have broken up the formations of extremist militants in
northern Iraq but failed to stop the overall advances of the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant, the Pentagon's operations chief said Monday.

In reaction to the airstrikes, the ISIL fighters were "now starting to dissipate and hide among the people" to escape the U.S. warplanes, said Army Lt. Gen. William, C. Mayville.
"Targeting is going to get more difficult," Mayville said at a Pentagon news conference.

The general called the ISIL fighters "very well organized, very well
equipped and thus far they have shown an ability to attack on multiple
axes."
Kurdish forces reported have retaken several towns from ISIL but one
of the problems faced by the peshmerga Kurdish fighters was the
longer-range weapons employed by ISIL, Mayville said. The U.S. was
looking at the possibility of supplying the Kurds with long-range
weapons to match those of ISIL, Mayville said.

ISIL HAS CAPTURED MANY U.S.-SUPPLIED ARMS AND VEHICLES FROM FLEEING IRAQI ARMY...U.S. DRONES ALSO CAPTURED.Aug 15, 2014
U.S. warplanes
on combat patrols over northern Iraq increasingly are hitting
U.S.-made armored vehicles captured by Islamic militants from the
fleeing Iraqi army.

In the latest airstrikes Thursday, the U.S. Central Command said that a mix of fighters and armed drones destroyed one of the heavily-armored Mine Resistant-Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles that were a mainstay of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The MRAP was targeted after the warplanes destroyed two other
armored vehicles northeast of the Kurdish capital of Irbil that were
being used by fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to
fire on positions held by the Kurdish peshmerga forces, the Central
Command said in a statement.

DESPITE AMERICA'S SLOW RESPONSE TO KURDISH REQUESTS FOR BETTER ARMS AND DEFENSIVE EQUIPMENT, REFUSAL TO AIRLIFT FLEEING REFUGEES, OTHER NATIONS HAVE AGREED TO HELP.
In Brussels Friday, foreign and defense ministers of the European Union gave a positive response to the Kurdish requests.
The 28 nations of the EU bloc agreed on a plan to allow direct arms
shipments to the Kurds while boosting humanitarian aid for members of
the Yazidi sect and other refugees who have fled the ISIL advance.
"First of all we need to make sure that we alleviate humanitarian
suffering," Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said, the
Associated Press reported.
"Secondly, I believe we need to make sure that (ISIL) is not in a
position to overrun the Kurds or to take a stronger hold on Iraq,"
Timmermans said.
French President Francois Hollande has already pledged to ship
weapons to the Kurds, and Britian has pledged to deliver ammunition.
"Weapons are already being delivered by other countries," German
Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen told the Bild newspaper Friday.
"We are at present examining what kind of further military equipment we can send," she said.U.S. AIRSTRIKES NEAR MOSUL DAM MAY THREATEN DAM'S INTEGRITY
August 15, 2014(CNN) -- U.S. warplanes carried out airstrikes in
northern Iraq near ISIS-controlled Mosul Dam early Saturday morning, the
Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported, citing eyewitnesses.

CNN confirmed that a U.S.
and Iraqi military operation aimed at retaking the country's largest
hydroelectric dam from the so-called Islamic State was scheduled to
begin early Saturday morning (Friday at 6 p.m. ET).

The operation was to
begin with U.S. and Iraqi airstrikes against ISIS positions, with Iraqi
and Kurdish Peshmerga forces following up on the ground.

U.S. fighter jets began carrying out the strikes early Saturday morning local time, Rudaw reported.

The dam sits on Iraq's Tigris River about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of the city of Mosul.
Should the dam fail or ISIS fighters open its floodgates, massive flooding could result.

STRIKES NOT AIMED AT DRIVING ISIS/ISIL OUT OF IRAQ!
President Obama did not say that airstrikes would be used to eject ISIS forces from Mosul or Kirkuk or Fallujah.
In densely populated cities like these, air power has real limitations. An
enemy in defensive positions, particularly in urban terrain, is very
difficult to engage with air power. Even if the target can be hit, the
possibility for collateral damage that causes civilian casualties is
very real. And if the target is missed, the collateral damage can be
exponentially higher, even catastrophic.

AMERICA ONCE AGAIN COUNTING ON KURDS TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE...A senior administration official has stressed to reporters that U.S. forces are NOT launching a “sustained campaign” against ISIS in Iraq.
Since ISIS began its rampage through Iraq in early June, both the
U.S. and Iraqi governments have tacitly bet on the Kurds’ ability to
repel ISIS advances in the north. But betting on the Peshmerga to hold
the line now looks like a riskier proposition after ISIS broke through
Kurdish defenses and set in motion the current crisis.
In truth, it was never that safe of a bet. Since early June,
representatives of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government have warned the
United States that the Kurdish Peshmerga were not positioned to protect
the Yazidi and Christian minorities in the Kurdish region.
“We have significant interests and assets in the region,” one senior
Kurdish official told The Daily Beast in June, describing the message to
the U.S government. “But also more worryingly, we have a Yazidi and
Christian populations that are gravely under threat right now.”

The consensus among ex-CIA analysts, former military officers, and Iraq
veterans who spoke with The Daily Beast is that the Peshmerga’s
abilities were overrated. No one questions the Kurds’ willingness to
fight, but their military prowess appears to have degraded in the years
since the U.S. military stopped training them and withdrew from Iraq.

A former Special Forces officer in Iraq who maintains extensive
contacts among the Kurdish forces points out another factor affecting
their performance. “The Kurds’ biggest weakness is the size of the
border they have to protect from ISIS and the imperative they are under
to yield nothing,” he said. “ISIS can give up territory, but the Kurds
cannot.”
Air strikes against ISIS targets can weaken the group, buy time, and
prevent it from massing on Kurdish forces, but according to military and
CIA veterans, air power alone will not be decisive.

Moving U.S. special operations forces onto the battlefield, even as
advisors, “greatly raises the profile of American involvement and will
eventually lead to highly visible American casualties,” according to the
Special Forces veteran.
President Obama made his political
career, in part, on his opposition to the Iraq war. Those casualties are
something he is desperately trying to avoid. But the situation on the
ground in Iraq may leave him no choice.

Obama’s Iraq airstrikes could actually help the Islamic State, not weaken it
For most Iraqis, the U.S. is still known for sanctioning, invading and occupying Iraq. Across the region, returning to direct U.S. military involvement in Iraq, against the Islamic State or not [MAY BE MISCONSTRUED].[THIS ARTICLE GOES ON TO ARGUE THAT AMERICAN PRESENCE AND FURTHER BOMBING INSIDE IRAQ WILL GIVE ISIS/ISIL GOOD PROPAGANDA TO RECRUIT MORE MEMBERS FROM DISGRUNTLED IRAQIS WHO HATE AMERICA'S DESTRUCTION OF IRAQ.]
President Obama himself called Iraq a “dumb war.” As he’s said, there is no U.S. military solution in Iraq. So why is he authorizing U.S. actions that set us up to fail?

ISIS LEADER, CALIPH OF ISLAMIC STATE, HAS FLED TO SYRIA15 Aug, 2014
In comments to Asharq Al-Awsat, Kurdistan Democratic Party
(KDP) spokesman Saeed Mamo Zinni said: “Caliph of the Islamic State
Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi left Mosul for Syria a few days ago.”
“According to our intelligence sources, Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi traveled
to Syria as part of a convoy of 30 Hummer vehicles after fearing being
targeted by US airstrikes,” Zinni said. He added that Kurdish Peshmerga
forces have been able to kill a number of ISIS senior leaders.

DESPITE THE AIRSTRIKES, ISIS YESTERDAY MASSACRED 80 MORE IN AN IRAQI VILLAGEAug 16th 2014The insurgents allegedly stormed into
the small village of Kojo in northern Iraq, where they spent five days
trying to persuade villagers to take up their religion.When
they refused, the male members of the ancient Yazidi sect were reportedly
rounded up and shot dead, while more than 100 women and girls were
kidnapped. The women and girls
abducted from the village, situated around 12 miles south of Sinjar,
were being taken to the ISIS-controlled cities of Mosul and Tal Afar,
the official said. British jihadist Nasser Muthana also posted this claim on his Twitter account,
saying that he and other Islamic State fighters had captured hundreds
of Yazidi and were holding them hostage in Syria.

The Islamic State continued its push to the border with the Kurdish region.

NO, AIRSTRIKES WILL NEVER STOP ISIS, AND THE ISLAMIC STATE WILL MARCH ON.

Sunday, August 10, 2014

ISLAM'S FOUNDER CONSUMMATED HIS MARRIAGE TO HIS "FAVORITE WIFE", AISHA, WHEN SHE WAS 9 YEARS OLD.

HE BEGAN "THIGH TRAINING HER" WHEN SHE WAS 6.

ISIS CLAIMS IT IS 100% PURE ISLAM.

IT WILL ACCEPT NO "MODERATES", NOR WILL IT ACCEPT "AMERICANIZED MUSLIMS" AS MUSLIMS.

RECENT HEADLINES ON AN ISIS WEBSITE ANNOUNCED:

“We have come to you with slaughter.”

ISIS has declared its intentions to conquer Jordan, Lebanon, Gaza, Sinai as well as Jerusalem, Rome, America and Spain.

ISIS is a group of what is known as “Salafist jihadists” committed to what they see as the original meaning of the sacred texts of Islam, including the Quran.

They combine that with a total commitment to violent jihad and a belief that the United States is its greatest ENEMY on earth, that ALL who live in America belong to SATAN, including what they see as "APOSTATE MUSLIMS" who ran to America and turned their backs on ISLAM.

ISIS considers OTHER Salafis to be apostate Muslims who have turned away from God to appease Arab oil sheiks (which is why the jihadists call the other Salafis “sheikists.”)

So, Enemy No. 2: The Salafis.

Enemy No. 3: The Arab oil sheiks.

They seem to especially hate the House of Saud.

ISIS considers ALL Shiites to be apostates and reject any form of Shiite rule.

(The Shiites govern Iran and are the primary leaders in Iraq. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is an Alawite, a mystical branch of Shiia Islam.)

Enemy No. 4: All Shiites.

Enemy No. 5: The government of Iran and its military.

Enemy No. 6: The government of Iraq and its military.

Enemy No. 7: The government of Syria and its military.

ISIS considers Hamas, the Sunni organization fighting in the Arab-Israeli conflict, to be TRAITORS to the faith who must be removed or killed before any Islamic victory against Israel can be achieved, and has since pledged to fight Hezbollah and its Lebanese supporters.

ISIS considers Hamas, the Sunni organization fighting in the Arab-Israeli conflict, to be traitors to the faith who must be removed or killed before any Islamic victory against Israel can be achieved, and has since pledged to fight Hezbollah and its Lebanese supporters.

And one ISIS commander, a Tunisian named Abu Mus’ab, declared Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al-Qaeda to be an apostate. Enemy No. 8: Hamas. Enemy No. 9: Hezbollah. Enemy No. 10: Al-Qaeda. Some Sunnis have identified the group’s members as modern Kharijites—a sect that is neither Shia nor Sunni that in the seventh century refused to accept the leadership of the cousin of the Prophet Muhammad.

ISIS Threatens America! 'We Will Raise the Flag of Allah in the White
House' .

“I
say to America that the Islamic Caliphate has been established,” Abu
Mosa, a spokesman for the terror group.

“Don’t be cowards and attack us with drones. Instead

send your soldiers, the ones we humiliated in Iraq.”

THE DECAPITATED BODY OF A CHILD IN SYRIA, 2012. ISIS USES THESE PHOTOS ON ITS WEBSITES TO STRIKE TERROR INTO THE HEARTS OF THE NATIONS.ISIS HAS "VOWED TO ALLAH" THAT IT WILL KILL ALL SHIITES, ALL "APOSTATE' SUNNIS, ALL WESTERNIZED/AMERICAN MUSLIMS, THE KINGS OF JORDAN AND SAUDI ARABIA, ALL CHRISTIANS WHO DO NOT CONVINCINGLY CONVERT, ALL JEWS, ALL OF "SATANIC AMERICA", ALL WHO DO NOT PLEDGE OBEDIENCE TO AND SUBMISSION TO ISIS DOCTRINE, TO THE TYPE OF ISLAM THAT ISIS INSISTS UPON.

A REPORT BY THE UNITED NATIONS, ISSUED IN OCTOBER, 2014, GIVES THE STATISTICS OF ISIS' MURDERS OF FELLOW MUSLIMS. "On September 5, ISIS executed three Sunni women in Mosul. What was their “crime”? They refused to provide medical care to ISIS fighters. - On September 9, ISIS executed a Sunni Imam in western Mosul for refusing to swear loyalty to ISIS. - On August 2, a man from the Salah ad Din province was abducted and beheaded for refusing to swear allegiance to ISIS. -On August 19, a female Muslim doctor south of Mosul was killed for organizing a protest to object to ISIS’ mandate that female doctors cover their faces with religious veils when treating patients. -On August 31, 19 Sunni Muslim men were executed in Saadiya for refusing to swear allegiance to ISIS. -On July 22, a Sunni Imam in Eastern Baquba was killed for simply denouncing ISIS. -On September 9, ISIS executed two Muslim women by shooting them in the back of the head. Their exact “crime” was not known. And the list goes on from ISIS slaughtering 1,500 Iraqi soldiers in June to blowing up numerous Sunni mosques because apparently the leaders of those mosques refused to swear loyalty to ISIS. Do take time to go read the U.N.'s long list of SUNNI AND OTHER MUSLIMS, THOUSANDS OF THEM, killed by ISIS. LET THE FOLLOWING VERY GRAPHIC AND SHOCKING VIDEOS AND PHOTOS CONVINCE YOU OF THEIR INTENTIONS.
MANY, ACTUALLY MOST OF THESE HAVE BEEN COPIED FROM THE ISIS WEBSITE, "Welayat Salahuddin", BUT YOU DO NOT WANT TO EXPOSE YOUR COMPUTER TO THAT SITE!
MOST OF THESE HAVE ALSO APPEARED IN ARABIAN MEDIA AND HAVE BEEN COPIED FROM THOSE.
I POST THESE, NOT AT ALL WANTING TO, BUT FEELING I MUST, AS SO FEW WILL FIND THESE AND KNOW WHAT ALL THE WORLD IS UP AGAINST FROM THESE "JIHADISTS".THEY ARE NOT THE "REBELS" MANY OF YOU MAY THINK THEY ARE!WHILE THESE ALL APPEAR ON SEVERAL WEBSITES, I HAVE CHOSEN THE ONES BELOW FOR CLARITY AND FOR SAFETY IN VISITING THE LINKS PROVIDED.PLEASE NOTE: I DO NOT SHARE THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON SOME OF THESE WEBSITES, BUT, AS I SAID, THEY ARE BUT THE "SAFEST" SITES THAT HAVE COPIED THESE FROM PURPORTED ISIS WEB PAGES.IN SYRIA, CRUCIFIXIONS AND BEHEADING OF SHIITES, APOSTATE SUNNIS, ASSYRIANS, CHILDREN AND CHRISTIANS, SHOOTINGS OF PRIESTS. http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/01/world/meast/syria-bodies-crucifixions/index.html

Killing a woman by slitting her throat and capturing her blood in a bowl, holding her firm as her life literally drains from her neck. Such forms of execution are intended to intimidate others. [NOTE: SOME SAY THIS IS A PHOTO-SHOPPED FAKE. TO THOSE I WOULD SAY, GO, FIND THE ISIS/IS WEBPAGES, AND YOU WILL SEE MUCH WORSE THAN THIS! THIS IS TAME IN COMPARISON TO MANY POSTS BY ACTUAL MEMBERS OF THE ISLAMIC STATE!]

IF AMERICAN MUSLIMS WON'T COMMIT TO JIHAD, WON'T BOW TO ISIS' WISHES, WON'T PLEDGE THEMSELVES TO BE MARTYRS FOR ISLAM, THEY WILL DIE WITH ALL OTHER AMERICANS, ISIS HAS SAID.ISIS HAS ALSO INVITED AMERICAN MUSLIMS TO GET OUT OF THE "GREAT SATAN NATION" AND JOIN THEM IN SYRIA, IRAQ, AND PROVE THEIR COMMITMENT TO ISLAM.

Thursday, August 7, 2014

It was a member of ISIS, news sources say, who recently tweeted via Twitter:“I swear to God, if we conquer Saudi Arabia, as you worship, none other than Allah will demolish the Kaaba.”

ISIS has been called the most brutal and lethal terrorist group on earth.

Even Al Qaeda has said this of them.

ISIS follows a strict interpretation of the Sunni faith, which is against idolatry of anything other than God, and ISIS sees Mecca and its worship of the Kaaba as idolatry. It has also threatened to kill any it finds near the Kaaba, or who have "rubbed the stone".ISIS has become notorious for singling out Shiite Muslims and executing them.

Amnesty International listed a few ISIS atrocities in their 18-page report “Rule of fear;ISIS abuses in
detention is northern Syria.”

“They have conducted hundreds of executions, beheadings, even
crucifixions in Mosul, Iraq. They destroy anything that is not Islamic,
such as the Assyrian Church in Mosul. Hundreds have been slain for being
“infidels.”

Saudi reconnaissance planes have found ISIS terrorists heading for the Saudi
border, aiming to seize control of the Iraqi-Saudi border crossing
at Ar Ar.

30,000 soldiers have been sent to Saudi's border by the king there.

Baku. Rashad Suleymanov – APA.
Representatives of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS)
stated that they will ruin the Kaaba after capturing Saudi Arabia.

APA reports quoting Turkish media that ISIS wants to take control of Arar city of Saudi Arabia and start operations here.

ISIS member Abu Turab Al Mugaddasi said that they would destroy the
Kaaba in Mecca: “If Allah wills, we will kill those who worship stones
in Mecca and destroy the Kaaba. People go to Mecca to touch the stones,
not for Allah.”

“The militant group's announcement is a message to all the states in the
region that you are inside the red circle now,” Nouri Al-Maliki of Iraq said.

A total of six mosques across the northern Nineveh province of Iraq have been destroyed by ISIS forces. ISIS operatives have also destroyed four religious Muslim shrines in the
region, including the Ahmed al-Rifai shrine and tomb, also in Tal
Afa.
ISIS is leaving a path of destroyed churches, shrines and mosques in
its wake as it storms across Syria and Iraq, and has even set its sights
on Mecca -- Islam's holiest site.
The nihilistic jihadis, led by self-proclaimed descendant of Prophet
Muhammad Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, have already bulldozed or blown up some
of the most sacred places in Iraq, and seem bent on killing and
destroying anyone or anything that does not measure up to their vision
of Islam. Experts say the group, which originally stood for Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria, but now simply calls itself "Islamic State,"
has appointed itself the leading proponent of the Muslim faith.
The threat to Mecca itself, the holy city in Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia, was unprecedented.In the early 10th century, the extremist Shia group known as the
Qarmatis raided Mecca, burned the Kaaba, and carried off the famous
Black Stone as an "idolatrous relic". “They believed that
other Muslims would stop making the pilgrimage. When people
kept going to Mecca anyway, the Qarmatis finally parted with the Black
Stone for an immense ransom.

But if ISIS actually tried to destroy the Kaaba, they would be met with extraordinary opposition.

“Upon the current events in the region, especially in Iraq, the
National Security Council, presided over by Custodian of the Two Holy
Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, has reviewed the course and
consequences of events and, based on the commitment of the Custodian of
the Two Holy Mosques to protect the national security of the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia, anticipating that the terrorist organizations or others
might carry out actions that might disturb the security of the homeland,
the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques has ordered taking all necessary
measures to protect the gains of the homeland and its territories in
addition to the security and stability of the Saudi people.”
Custodian of the Two Holy ‎Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz today addressed the
Arab and Islamic nations and international community. King Abdullah
stated that it’s the responsibility of the Muslim world not to allow
Islam to serve as justification for terrorist acts.

“I call on leaders and scholars of the Islamic nation to carry out
their duty towards God Almighty, and to stand in the face of those
trying to hijack Islam and present it to the world as a religion of
extremism, hatred, and terrorism, and to speak the word of truth, and
not fear anybody. Our nation today is passing through a critical,
historic stage, and history will be witness against those who have been
the tool exploited by the enemies to disperse and tear the nation and
tarnish the pure image of Islam,” said King Abdullah.

King Abdullah called upon the international community to do more to
combat terrorism in this time of historical and regional instability.

Egyptian-born Zawahri, who took over the leadership of Al Qaeda after Saudi arch-terrorist Osama Bin Laden was killed, invoked the ‘Arab Spring’ in his call.

‘Muslim brothers in the land of the holy mosques, a year has passed since the uprising of the Arab people against their rulers…my dear brothers why do you still accept to be ruled by the Al Saud family,’ Zawahiri said in a video posted on an Islamist website.

‘They are one of the worst corrupt governments who steal your money,’ he said. ‘Why don’t you rise up [against the Al Sauds] as you are the companions of the Prophet?’

While Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, has largely succeeded in riding out the storm, its eastern province – which has a large Shiite population – has seen sporadic demonstrations since March last year.”In November four people were killed, according to the Interior Ministry and activists. Riyadh asserts - like its Gulf Arab allies - that Shiite Persian Iran is stirring up unrest in a bid to destabilize the monarchy.Protesters' demands have focused on political reform in the mainly Sunni kingdom, with calls to improve life for the country's Shiite minority, and the release of political prisoners.

According to activists, security forces have arrested and released around 500 people over the protests, of whom 80 are still incarcerated.Zawahiri's call underscores the difficult position the slowly-reforming and business-minded Saudi monarchy finds itself in vis-a-vis the rising tide of political Islam that characterizes the Arab Spring.

Al Qaeda has also been behind a virulent Islamist terror campaign in neighboring Yemen.

US military and intelligence officials have used Saudi Arabia as a staging ground for an expanding drone strike campaign targeting the terror group there.

Saudi Arabia believes it is under attack as never before, say analysts with close ties to the kingdom’s elite, and sees Syria’s civil war, the chaos in Iraq, Iran's arming oh HAMAS, and Egypt’s political crisis as posing a domestic threat to the kingdom. The threats from ISIS only fan the flames of unease.

Responding to these perceived threats, Saudi Arabia has passed a set of laws that banned citizens from fighting abroad, donating money to any faction in Syria or sympathizing with militant ideologies.

Islamists from the kingdom’s conservative Sunni majority are the main focus of government unease, most clearly via a decree that branded the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.

ISIS Threatens to Invade Jordan, 'Slaughter' King Abdullah

ISIS terrorists recently posted a video on YouTube in which they threatened to "slaughter" Abdullah, whom they denounced as a "tyrant." Some of the terrorists who appeared in the video were Jordanian citizens who tore up their passports in front of the camera and vowed to launch suicide attacks inside the kingdom.

ISIS terrorists from both Iraq and Syria have begun creeping into neighboring countries of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and into the Gaza Strip.Individuals with known ties to ISIS are known to already be inside their borders.

ISIS leader Abu Baker al-Baghdadi recently discussed with his lieutenants the possibility of extending the group's control beyond Syria and Iraq.

He sees Jordan as a lover of the West, a friend to America.

One of the ideas discussed envisages focusing ISIS's efforts on Jordan, where Islamist movements already have a significant presence. Few have forgotten the massacre of thousands of Palestinians' along with many PLO members that became known as "Black September". Those inside Jordan from Gaza and the West Bank have previously made sporadic attempts to make their voices heard in Jordan, to gain full rights as citizens there, and to depose the Hashemite king.

Jordan was also chosen because it has shared borders with Iraq and Syria, making it easier for the terrorists to infiltrate the kingdom.

Jordanian political analyst Oraib al-Rantawi sounded alarm bells by noting that the ISIS threat to move its fight to the kingdom was real and imminent. "We in Jordan cannot afford the luxury of just waiting and monitoring," he cautioned. "The danger is getting closer to our bedrooms. It has become a strategic danger; it is no longer a security threat from groups or cells. We must start thinking outside the box. The time has come to increase coordination and cooperation with the regimes in Baghdad and Damascus to contain the crawling of extremism and terrorism."

The ISIS terrorists see Jordan's Western-backed King Abdullah as an enemy of Islam and an infidel, and have publicly called for his execution. ISIS terrorists recently posted a video on YouTube in which they threatened to "slaughter" Abdullah, whom they denounced as a "tyrant." Some of the terrorists who appeared in the video were Jordanian citizens who tore up their passports in front of the camera and vowed to launch suicide attacks inside the kingdom.

Security sources in Amman expressed deep concern over ISIS's threats and plans to "invade" the kingdom. The sources said that King Abdullah has requested urgent military aid from the U.S. and other Western countries so that he could foil any attempt to turn Jordan into an Islamist-controlled state.

Marwan Shehadeh, an expert on Islamist groups, said he did not rule out the possibility that ISIS would target Jordan because it views the Arab regimes, including Jordan's Hashemites, as "infidels" and "apostates" who should be fought.

The recent victories by ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria have emboldened the group and its followers throughout the Middle East. Now the terrorists are planning to move their jihad not only to Jordan, but also to the Gaza Strip, Sinai and Lebanon.

Who is to say that radical Palestinians
and Islamists in Jordan will not open the gates of that country to ISIS,
just as Syrians reached out to them at their cost?

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

CHILDREN IN GAZA PROTESTS BLACKOUTS IMPOSED BY HAMAS AFTER A 3-YEAR OLD BOY DIED AS A RESULT OF POWER OUTAGE.

July 29, 2014 http://www.worldtribune.com/2014/07/31/sources-hamas-quickly-puts-dissent-gaza-kills-palestinian-protesters/An incident on Monday, in which Hamas police officers killed two hungry citizens and wounded many others, illustrates the level of
intensity in the Gaza Strip these days. A large group of residents in the Beit Hanoun neighborhood had gathered
outside a local food stand, holding food vouchers given to them by the
regime. The hunger and lack of food led to a quarrel among the waiting
masses. Very quickly the quarreling spiraled into violence, weapons were
drawn with some residents opening fire.
Hamas policemen hurried to the scene to suppress the violence. In an
attempt to calm the situation down, the policemen too drew their weapons
and directed them at the residents. In the ensuing moments, Hamas shot
and killed two residents from Beit Hanoun and wounded dozens more.
The day before yesterday in Gaza City many residents in the Al Shifa hospital
protested against the terrorist organization hiding in its basemnent, with Hamas consequently
extracting some of the protesters and executing them on the spot.

Gazans are fed up with Hamas but most say that they won’t revolt for fear of
death. “The public in Gaza rightly assumes that the weapons are in the
hands of Hamas and know they will end up dead,” Orit Perlov, a researcher at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS), tells reporters.

She was moved, she said, by this tweet from a young Gazan man:“I want to survive, and if I don’t, remember that I was not a Hamas man or a fighter."

When she asked GAZAN CITIZENS for the reasons behind their reluctance in
protesting against Hamas, Perlov received the following response: “Hamas
has the weapons and so when we [the Gazan public] see what’s happening
in Syria, Iraq, Bahrain, Iran, and Turkey, we understand that Hamas
won’t think twice about shooting us.”

David Pollack, who recently polled Gaza citizens about Hamas and their war against Israel said, “With so many
Palestinians actually saying they want peace and support an immediate
cease fire, it means Hamas is imposing this war against Israel on its
own people.”

A large majority (71 %) said that crime was a “significant”
problem in Gaza.

Two-thirds said that another significant problem was official
corruption.

70% also agreed or strongly
agreed with the statement “Hamas should maintain a ceasefire with Israel
in both Gaza and the West Bank.”

A Gaza journalist, just a few days ago, told international reporters, " Nobody can forgive Hamas for what they’re doing. No one can forgive
Hamas for butchering Palestinians to get power. Most Gazans hate Hamas
with a passion.”
He continued, “The only reason Hamas rules Gaza is because of its
ruthless iron fist and military dictatorship,” he said. “We would love
to have an independence from both Fatah and Hamas, who are profiting off
the Palestinian people. We need to rule ourselves.”

Another Gaza journalist who tried to report about Hamas brutality, Haidar Ghanem, was accused of "collaborating with Israel" during Operation Cast Lead and was executed by Hamas on or about January 7. 2009. "the PA state security court had sentenced Ghanem, a father of two, after holding only two brief sessions."

Mudhar Zahran, a Palestinian politician in the West Bank, said publicly that Hamas has never been so unpopular in Gaza. “No normal human
being can watch what’s going on and still support Hamas,” said Zahran. "I
beg the Israeli army to understand that Hamas uses civilians, while
their own leaders (like Mashaal) are hiding in Qatar.”

When asked why Gazans don't turn to the U.N. to get rid of Hamas, one person said, "United Nations is controlled by the OIC (Organization of Islamic
Conference) which has turned into Islamic gestapo for the world. They
support terrorist groups like Hamas."

THE SADDEST TESTIMONY OF GAZANS DURING RECENT FIGHTING WAS THIS ONE:
A GAZAN FATHER rushed his little daughter to a Israeli field hospital set up across the border in Gaza. She as unconscious, laboring for breath and he was asked what happened. "She was standing too close to the rocket. Hamas fired the rocket and she collapsed. Help her! Oh, God, help her!"
I don't know the fate of the little girl, or of the father because he took her to an ISRAELI field hospital and he may have been killed for that.

Hamas and Fatah have been bitter rivals since June 2007, when Hamas
ousted Fatah from Gaza after launching a bloody coup against the Abbas
government. About 400 Fatah supporters were killed and many others
badly maimed. Fatah officials said at least 19 of its members were immediately executed and
many more brutally tortured after Hamas "won" the last elections. Many Gaza residents say they were forced to vote for Hamas.

Several brave Gazans have told international reporters that Hamas is using schools
and other public buildings in Gaza City to launch strikes at Israel, and that the towns of Khan Yunis and
Rafah are used as detention centers to interrogate members of Fatah and their supporters. They said three men had been blinded during
questioning and more than 60 had been shot in the legs as punishment soon after Hamas took power.

Fatah leaders in the West Bank also accused Hamas of stealing U.N. aid convoysGazans are not allowed to see news reports from outside Gaza, so few have seen the daily films of hundreds of aid trucks carrying food and necessary supplies into Gaza from Israel.We in the West keep track of those trucks going into Gaza, but No one knows what Hamas is doing with the goods.

Few Gazans know that the monetary aid earmarked for the CITIZENS of Gaza is being spent on things that Hamas cannot account for to the international community.While nations like Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan and Egypt say there should be more than enough money each month that Arabs and Westerners send millions to Gaza for all citizens to have benefit, Hamas cannot account for those missing millions each month.That is why Arab nations and others are slowing on humanitarian relief funds for Gaza.They know the citizens are not reaping any benefit from it.Hamas should care for its own people, but instead, they attack them and spend the money on themselves.May, 2007, Hamas opened fire on a school in Gaza.Several terrified children were shot. A guard was shot dead. Why? Because boys and girls were "intermingled". That is against Sharia Law, Hamas said.

A human rights group based in Ramallah has often decried the attacks by Hamas on the people of Gaza, releasing a statement that read, "A number of citizens have been extra-judicially executed during and after the Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip... Fire was opened on affected citizens at a close distance. In addition, individuals in official uniform or masked persons opened fire on people's legs, severely beat others, imposed house arrests, and threatened to punish citizens along with their families if they would not comply."

These are the atrocious things Hamas does.They were so cruel that Mosab Hassan Yousef (Arabic: مصعب حسن يوسف‎) (born 1978), a Palestinian and son of a Hamas founder and leader, Sheikh Hassan Yousef fled Gaza and even abandoned Islam, citing the cruelty he saw carried out on his own people by the terrorist groups who rule over them.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb2SHCSD74o

According to Mouin Gasser, a 45-year-old teacher there, the area around the
school was hit four times in about two minutes by the shells that
landed just outside the school. Gasser said that he did not see any
militants in the area.The Daily Mail quoted an eyewitness stating that he saw the marks from five separate explosions.
Hanan Abu Khajib said that Hamas militants fired just outside the
school compound, likely from the secluded courtyard of a house across
the street some 25 yards from the school, and that Israeli return fire
minutes later landed outside the school along its southwest wall,
killing two Hamas fighters.Two unnamed residents, who spoke to an Associated Press
reporter by phone on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, said a
group of militants had been firing mortar shells rounds from a street
close to the school.Jonathan Miller wrote in a Channel 4
story that "local residents in the street told me that militants had
been firing rockets – as the IDF claimed – and having been targeted in
retaliatory fire by the IDF, they ran down the street past the school.Residents of the neighborhood said two brothers who were Hamas fighters were in the area at the time of the attack.WHY WOULD HAMAS FIRE ROCKETS FROM NEAR THAT SCHOOL KNOWING ALL INSIDE IT MIGHT BE KILLED?WHY?Gazan teenagers and college students, have formed a group to let the world know what they suffer every day under Hamas, wondering when retaliatory strikes will come from Israel.

They wrote a Manifesto for the youth in Gaza. It gained international attention.[WARNING, THE LANGUAGE IS VERY GRAPHIC WITH SOME STRONG OBSCENITIES!]1 January 2011<<"An anonymous group of students has created a document to express their
frustration born of Hamas's violent crackdowns on 'western decadence',
the destruction wreaked by Israel's attacks and the political games
played by Fatah and the U.N.The young Gazans say they are fed up with Hamas and 'sick of bearded guys with guns'. This is the first time that a group of young Palestinian cyber-activists
has agreed to meet a journalist since launching what it calls Gaza
Youth's Manifesto for Change. It is an incendiary document – written
with courage and furious energy – that has captivated thousands of
people who have come across it online, and the young university students
are visibly excited, but also scared. "Not only are our lives in
danger; we are also putting our families at risk," says one of them, who
calls himself Abu George. "Fuck Hamas..." begins the text. "Fuck Israel. Fuck Fatah.
Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA! We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up
with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and
the indifference of the international community!"It goes on to detail the daily humiliations and frustrations that constitute everyday life in the Gaza Strip.
"Here in Gaza we are scared of being incarcerated, interrogated, hit,
tortured, bombed, killed," reads the extraordinary document. "We are
afraid of living, because every single step we take has to be considered
and well-thought, there are limitations everywhere, we cannot move as
we want, say what we want, do what we want, sometimes we even can't
think what we want because the occupation has occupied our brains and
hearts so terrible that it hurts and it makes us want to shed endless
tears of frustration and rage!"
The text ends with a triple
demand: "ENOUGH! Enough pain, enough tears, enough suffering, enough control,
limitations, unjust justifications, terror, torture, excuses, bombings,
sleepless nights, dead civilians, black memories, bleak future,
heart-aching present, disturbed politics, fanatic politicians, religious
bullshit, enough incarceration! WE SAY STOP! This is not the future we
want! We want three things. We want to be free. We want to be able to
live a normal life. We want peace. Is that too much to ask?"

Two of the group have been detained by the Gazan authorities several
times, accused among other crimes of "immoral" behaviour. They say that
they have been abused in jail and claim that physical and psychological
punishment is commonplace in Gaza's detention centres.

"We are supposed to be the engine of change in this society, but our
voices are muted. In the press, at university, there is no room in our
society to talk freely, out of the frame, without putting yourself and
your family at risk," says one, who wants to be called Abu Yazan. He
adds: "In Gaza, you feel watched at school, in the streets, everywhere.
You can be thrown into jail at any time. [Hamas] will threaten you with
ruining your family reputation and that would be it."
These
youngsters do not represent anybody except themselves, but their call
for change has resonated strongly, not only abroad but also inside Gaza.
Their Facebook page already has thousands of friends – including, they
say, many from the Strip.

Going out, meeting friends in cafés – let alone clubs or discotheques –
or attending cultural events has become an increasingly complicated task
as Hamas cracks down on western "decadence".

In the places where young men and women are allowed to meet,
considered an "oasis" by the less conservative youth, the police are
quick to interrogate mixed couples suspected of not being married or
engaged.

The "last straw" for the writers of the Gaza manifesto
came a month ago, when Hamas closed Sharek, an internationally financed
organisation offering training and summer activities for thousands of
adolescents and young people. Sharek had also became a hang-out place
for the more liberal-minded in Gaza. Human Rights Watch recently issued a
statement condemning its closure. "Hamas authorities in Gaza should
allow an organisation that helps children and youth to reopen, and
penalise officials who have harassed its workers," it said."

THE YOUNG PEOPLE EXPLAINED TO THE INTERVIEWER ...With high unemployment in the Strip and little access to other job
markets after graduation, many feel that they have reached a dead end.
Some keep studying and accumulating degrees and foreign languages, which
they learn via the internet, hoping for better days to come. Others
kill their time smoking hookahs with their friends day after day. There
is an increasing number who rely on drugs to cope with their conflict
traumas and frustrations. >>

TO BACK UP WHAT THESE YOUNG PEOPLE CLAIM:A German journalist filmed video of Hamas' attack on a young man, a woman, and others as they tried to leave an area that Israel had warned them would be coming under fire. Hamas stops them, begins shoving and brutally beating while the woman cries out "WHY? WHAT HAVE WE DONE? You are worse than the Jews!"A young man is dragged away, another is slammed into a car and we don't see him anymore.The journalist is threatened by Hamas, but stands his ground. MANY OF THE CAPTIONS ARE IN GERMAN, BUT NOT ALL.

July 310, 2014: A journalist in Gaza backs the IDF version of a missile
strike on a school playground and says Hamas rockets went astray. But
it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Returning from a stint in Gaza, and safe from what HE ominously
referred to as potential “Hamas retaliation”, Italian journalist
Gabriele Barbati on Tuesday afternoon broke the media silence by
tweeting the following message, confirming that Hamas terrorists rushed
to cover up evidence of what was indeed THEIR OWN errant rocket fire aimed at
Israel:<<Out
of #Gaza far from #Hamas retaliation: misfired rocket killed children
yday in Shati. Witness: militants rushed and cleared debris>>

Verifying facts on the ground in Gaza is notoriously difficult for
foreign reporters, and even for Palestinian journalists seen as aligned
with the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority,
as journalists are closely watched by Hamas security forces and can
face interrogation and a permanent ban from Gaza for publishing material
deemed unfavorable to the territory’s Islamist rulers. As such, little
information has emerged on what exactly happened that day in Shati.Hamas, through coercion and violence, limits the freedom of foreign journalists in Gaza, but many are speaking out once they reach safety.

Twice last week, Wall Street Journal reporters posted on
Twitter statements and photos implicating Hamas — but then quickly
deleted their tweets.
Those who request the tweets are being censored.

The first deleted tweet, posted by Wall Street Journal Middle East correspondent Nick Casey on July 21, referenced Hamas’s use
of the Shifa Hospital in Gaza as a shield against Israeli attack:
<<You have to wonder w the shelling how patients at Shifa hospital feel as Hamas uses it as a safe place to see media>>
He followed that tweet with another: “@IDFSpokesperson said truth in
communique released yesterday about Shati camp massacre. It was not
Israel behind it.”

A second deleted tweet, posted by Tamer El-Ghobashy,
suggested Hamas was likely responsible for a strike that hit the Shifa
Hospital that day:
<<An outside wall on the campus of Gaza'smain hospital was hit by a strike. Low level damage suggest Hamas misfire.>>

Wall Street Journal DID initially reply to questions of why the Tweets were removed by forwarding some of the THREATS their journalists had received!

Radjaa Abu Dagga, a Palestinian-born photojournalist from France also told his story of being summoned to the Shifa hospital and threatened for reporting Hamas' use of human shields.
Even after he told them he was Palestinian, they wared him, "You must leave Gaza as soon as possible and stop working!"

A Spanish journalist told filmmaker Michael Grynszpan that the reason television news does not broadcast images of Hamas fighters in action is because of fear of immediate execution. ‘If ever we dared point our camera on them they would simply shoot at us and KILL us.’

Several Western journalists currently working in Gaza have been harassed
and threatened by Hamas for documenting cases of the terrorist group’s
involvement of civilians in Hamas' warfare against Israel, saying that some in the international media are intimidated and do not report on such incidents.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper, was perhaps the only fearless journalist in Lebanon filming Hezbollah.He publicly reported on their tactics, which are the same as journalists are reporting that Hamas is using now:“As the video showed a group reporters and photographers
interviewing a single woman on a blanket, Cooper explained, ‘Civilian
casualties are clearly what Hezbollah wants foreign reporters to focus
on. It keeps the attention off them — and questions about why Hezbollah
should still be allowed to have weapons when all the other militias in
Lebanon have already disarmed.’”“After letting us take pictures of a few damaged buildings, they take
us to another location, where there are ambulances waiting.”“This is a heavily orchestrated Hezbollah media event. When we got here, all the ambulances were lined up. We were allowed a few minutes to talk to the ambulance drivers. Then
one by one, they’ve been told to turn on their sirens and zoom off so
that all the photographers here can get shots of ambulances rushing off
to treat civilians. That’s the story that Hezbollah wants people to know about.”“These ambulances aren’t responding to any new bombings. The sirens are strictly for effect.”

What will Hamas stop at?A Gaza water park was burned down by Hamas in 2010 and several were "punished" because, Hamas said, of "events where men and women sit together".

In May of 2010, Hamas Jihadists burned a UN-run summer camp for children and teens in Gaza, They threatened to kill John Ging, head of the anti-Israeli UNRWA in Gaza. "about two dozen armed and masked men targeted a seaside camp in central Gaza, ... The assailants tied up an unarmed guard, then tried to set fire to two tents and a perimeter fence made from tarp-like material. Wielding knives, they slashed a plastic swimming pool, blow-up slide and toys."

ANOTHER VERY SAD STORY OF HOW MUCH SUFFERING IS IMPOSED ON THE PEOPLE OF GAZA BY HAMAS IS HEART-BREAKING:

GAZA CITY (Reuters) 26/09/2012 -- At least 500 protesters in the Gaza Strip have called for the overthrow of the ruling Hamas government in a rare demonstration triggered by the death of a three-year-old boy in a fire during a power outage.

Protesters in the Bureij refugee camp, where the boy's family live, called for Hamas to be toppled and chanted "The people want to down the regime" late on Tuesday night, echoing slogans adopted in Arab revolutions in neighboring countries. The police swiftly dispersed the crowd.

The dead boy's father called for more protests, saying he hoped a healing of internal Palestinian political rifts could ease the Strip's problems."I call on people to take to the streets and not to fear being clubbed by policemen," Abdel-Fattah Al-Baghdadi, 23, told Reuters."I hold both the governments in Gaza and in the West Bank responsible for what happened to us," he said.

Hamas has banned protests, including any demonstrations calling for an end to divisions between it and Fatah.

Police in Gaza also dispersed what they said was an unlicensed rally organized by dozens of women calling for unity between Gaza and the West Bank.

THE PEOPLE WANT A NEW ELECTION
Many citizens in Gaza have asked for new elections.There have been NO elections since the setting up of the Palestinian Authority since 2006.The dictator for life, Arafat, died in 2004, requiring the ONLY new Palestinian "election".Only 700 people in ALL Gaza are allowed to vote in the "Palestinian National Council".

[The enemies of Allah] do not know that the Palestinian people has developed its [methods] of death and death-seeking. For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land. The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: "We desire death like you desire life."

GAZA'S CITIZENS ARE BOMBARDED WITH THIS EACH DAY!

Following the Hamas takeover of Gaza in August 2007, Hamas banned Palestinian public access television, controlled by rival faction Fatah, from making or broadcasting programs into Gaza. The ban left most of Gaza's electronic media in the hands of Hamas.Much of Al-Aqsa TV programming glorifies violence and focuses on children AS MARTYRS.

A March 2013 segment included an interview with child-relatives of Umm Nidal, the Palestinian mother of four sons who became suicide bombers. The children expressed pride in their fathers' bombings and told viewers that, "I ask all Muslim sisters, mothers and daughters and sisters, that the Al Aqsa expects us, the next generation, to fall into line for it, God Willing and Exalted. Do not withhold from us the commanders, do not withhold from us the soldiers, and do not withhold from us lovers of martyrdom." The children also sang a song glorifying martyrdom.

Al-Aqsa TV maintains a Web site, which serves as a medium for news and announcements from the station. News stories posted on the site justify rocket attacks against civilians as retaliation for "the crimes of the occupation." The site also includes many graphic pictures of martyrs wrapped in shrouds and carried by large crowds. The site is hosted by a German company.

I AM NOT STUPID.I KNOW THAT HUNDREDS OF INNOCENT LIVES WERE LOST AS ISRAEL RETALIATED AGAINST HAMAS IN GAZA.BUT, SINCE I BELIEVE WHAT THE PEOPLE OF GAZA ARE SHOWING US, TELLING US, I ALSO KNOW THAT MORE OF YOU ARE KILLED BY HAMAS EVERY YEAR! YOU ARE CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO NIGHTMARES!

BUT, LOOK AT THE WEST BANK!THERE ARE NO DEAD THERE TODAY AS HAMAS IS NOT THERE TO PUT THE LIVES OF CITIZENS IN DANGER! NO ROCKETS FLEW AT ISRAEL FROM THE WEST BANK!I BELIEVE THE BRAVE PEOPLE OF GAZA WHO WANT PEACE, THE YOUTH, ALL WHO HAVE DARED COME FORWARD WITH THESE HEART-WRENCHING TESTIMONIES OF WHAT THEY ARE SUFFERING UNDER HAMAS.

I FEEL THAT, IF MORE WOULD SPEAK OUT, SOMEHOW, IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE, THAT ALL THE WORLD WOULD DEMAND THAT YOU ARE FREE OF THE BRUTALITY YOU DAILY SUFFER UNDER HAMAS.

MILLIONS OF US HAVE SEEN THEIR TACTICS AGAINST YOU, BUT YOUR VOICES MUST BE RAISED WITH OURS. YOU ARE THE ONLY EYEWITNESSES TO WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOUR OWN STREETS.YOU ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN SHOW THE REST OF THE WORLD WHAT IS GOING ON THERE.

Sunday, August 3, 2014

IT CERTAINLY IS NOT ONLY GAZA AND ISRAEL AT WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST.EVERY NATION IN THAT REGION IS AT WAR AND MOST OF THE BATTLES ARE BROTHERS AGAINST BROTHERS, ACCORDING TO AL JAZEERA REPORTS.[See my blog, "ARAB NATIONS SUPPORT ISRAEL'S WAR AGAIST HAMAS]Egypt, continued deadly clashes over politics and violence between sects breaks out across the nation. Retribution killings continue. Violence against Christians mounts.
The extremist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, is partnering with HAMAS ad Egypt wants them both destroyed.

Iraq is weathering its deadliest outburst of violence since 2008, sees daily violence as different factions of Islam fight for control. The Islamic State is capturing towns at an alarming rate, CAPTURED THE MOSUL DAM, 3 MORE TOWNS AND ANOTHER OIL FIELD TODAY, and is executing what they call "apostate Shia Muslims, Christians, all opposed to them, as they go.
A food crisis is panicking civilians this week in Iraq, but they will soon be faced with a water crisis as ISIS has taken that dam.
Suicide bombings are highest in 6 years.

Afghanistan has seen an upswing in fatal strikes by the Taliban, suicide bombings, attacks against American and allied forces. Iran is fueling Afghan unrest as well. The Iranian Embassy in Kabul had "a very active" agenda of triggering anti-American sentiment, and Iran has been paying Afghan president Hamid Karzai millions of dollars each year a fact he has stated repeatedly in his negotiations with America.Corruption is rampant in the Karzai administration.Syria sees escalation in sectarian violence, bombings, destruction of entire villages, deaths of thousands. Two years after the first anti-government protests, conflict in Syria rages on. Following the military crackdown, the United States tightened sanctions. The United States shut down its embassy in Damascus, citing security concerns. The Arab League voted to suspend Syria's membership and then imposed
sanctions, accusing the Assad government of failing to implement a peace
plan. On June 21, 2012, Syrian government forces shot down a Turkish jet near its border.
The U.N. Human Rights Council says the Syrian military committed war
crimes in the massacre of more than 100 civilians, half of them
children, in the village of Houla in May 2012.
At least 65 people are found dead Jan. 29 in the contested Syrian city of Aleppo, many of them bound and shot execution-style.
Saudi Arabia aims to provide rebels with weapons and has called on the U.S. to do so as well. America complied.

Saudi Arabia's Wahabbist regime continues its violence against other Muslim sects while it also continues funding Islamic extremist groups across the Middle east.
Saudis imprisoned dozens on terrorism charges back in June of this year.
Jail terms ranging from six months to 30 years handed down to 33 people for forming a "terror cell", official media says.
A court in the capital Riyadh sentenced two people to death and jailed a third for 25 years after they were convicted of violence during Shia protests.
Scores of Shia Muslims are on trial after they were detained for anti-government protests in the Eastern province.
Demonstrations in the oil-rich region, where most of the kingdom's two million Shia Muslims live, erupted in 2011 alongside a Shia-led protest movement in neighbouring Bahrain.
They turned violent in 2012 and clashes between police and protesters have so far killed 24 people, including at least four policemen, according to activists.

In Pakistan, radical Islamic terror groups continue to thrive, and Pakistan is still using America to carry out drone strikes against enemies of the Pakistani government, while the Haqqani network, one of the most dangerous militant factions operating out of Pakistan, continues fighting American troops in neighboring Afghanistan.
Dozens of dead are reported every day in Pakistan.
Internal threats to Pakistan come from several sources: ethnic unrest (brother fighting brother), the recurrent intervention in the government of
the
Pakistani military, the rampant gun
culture and spread of narcotics-based corruption,
particularly
since the war in Afghanistan, and Pakistan's ambivalent attitude toward terrorism, to name a few.

The small Arabic states of Oman and Qatar seem to be stirring from a peaceful slumber.
Unemployment is relatively high in Oman, which has only limited oil reserves and is one of the poorest of the oil-producing countries. Sultan Qaboos is now facing unprecedented challenges from the streets as a direct result of the wave of uprisings that has swept through the region.
Outside the Majlis al-Shura, Oman's consultative assembly, there is a permanent encampment of protesters demanding jobs. They say they will not budge until their demands are met.Two people were killed in 2011 during clashes in the city of Sohar between security forces and protesters demanding more jobs.

In contrast to economically strapped Oman, Qatar evokes thoughts of incredible wealth.Qatar is now reckoned to be the richest country in the world.
It is also home to HAMAS terrorist leaders, and has provided financial support to several radical Islamic groups over the years.
Some say that without the support of Qatar and Turkey, Hamas would never have been able to start the bloody war now going on in Israel.Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority seem to also see Qatar and Turkey as allies of Hamas and enemies of moderate Arab states.

Bahrain, a small nation under the influence of Saudi Arabia, continues to be the site of sectarian violence and human rights violations.
Bahrain recently demanded that a U.S. official leave after he met with a Shia opposition group.
Bahrain's foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday that US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Tom Malinowski is not welcome in the country.

Bahrain is a tiny island nation that is home to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, but has been roiled by near-daily protests by Shia Muslims seeking greater political rights and inspired by the Arab Spring wave of revolutions that started in early 2011.
The government moved to crush the uprising, which threatened to spill into neighbouring Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries with Shia populations, with the help of regional Gulf Arab forces.
Repeated rounds of political talks have failed to significantly close the rifts between the country's Sunni monarchy and majority Shia factions.

Iran has long called for the complete annihilation of the State of Israel, the United States, and other "powers of arrogance", but Iran has troubles of its owm.
A long and bitter rivalry between Iran’s president and an influential band of brothers in the political hierarchy exploded in 2012.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the head of the powerful judiciary, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, of protecting “certain individuals” from prosecution for economic corruption who are widely understood to be high officials, including Ayatollah Larijani’s oldest brother.
Ayatollah Khamenei recently pointed out that massacre, bloodshed, blind terrorism and its related catastrophes as well as the opportunities created for the occupying Zionist regime are all outcomes of division and difference in the Islamic Ummah.
As is the case in ALL Middle Eastern conflicts, deaths in Iran are the result of "family feuds", one sect kills the other.

Kuwait's favorite "preacher" has just called for all Gazan mothers to suckle their children on hatred for Jews and to raise their children up to accept matyrdom for Islam.
Iraq and Kuwait are still at outs and the tension is increasing.
Kuwait still demands war reparations from Iraq, with some $20 billion still outstanding, as well as full cooperation regarding the return of its national archives and other artifacts and the fate of Kuwaiti prisoners of war.
Kuwait's Parliament has, in recent years, shown a profound inability to take difficult decisions when necessary. Instead, MPs seem preoccupied with ousting the embattled prime minister and blocking much needed investment packages.
Kuwait is often accused of "a kind of nationalistic tub thumping", fodder for nationalistic politicians, keen to distract attention from domestic ills and incite outcry against U.S. pressure to extend its troop presence there.
Kuwait often produces very militant videos by popular Imams that inflame and incite all of radical Islam.
"Kill all Jews", "The West is trying to destroy Islam" are common themes of these Islamic rants.

Libya defines chaos ever since the U.S. decided to depose Gaddafi.
It is a nation completely devoid of leadership or sanity.[UPDATE: December 29, 2014, NEW OIL WELL FIRES IN LIBYA RAISES CRUDE OIL PRICES BACK TO $60 PER BARREL. http://profit.ndtv.com/news/commodities/article-oil-rises-to-60-per-barrel-libya-fire-supports-719668 ]
Tunisian guards fired tear gas on Sunday, August 3, to stop thousands from storming across the border after fleeing violence in Tripoli.
Thousands of stranded Egyptian and foreign nationals, fleeing ongoing fighting and violence in Libya, tried to break through the passage, the Tunisian news agency said.
Armed rebel groups had overrun army bases in Libya's second largest city, Benghazi, and claimed control of the city over the last few days.TUNISIA ITSELF HAS BEE EMBROILED IN ETHNIC FIGHTING FOR A VERY LONG TIME!

Lebanon is once again heating up as clashes between its long-warring factions intensify as well as trouble at its border with Syria.
Arsal, a Sunni town where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees have fled to escape fighting across the mountainous border, has seen frequent spillover from Syria and has been a tinder box for domestic tensions in Lebanon.
Syrian warplanes have bombed Arsal's surrounding areas and rebel fighters often cross the porous frontier, sometimes resting or seeking medical treatment in Arsal.
The Lebanese army pledged on Saturday "decisive and firm" action to prevent the Syrian conflict from spilling over into Lebanon.
Not long ago, a French-Lebanese psychologist who visited Lebanon with
his wife expressed his pessimism concerning the general situation there, even
though it looked stable at the time. He noted that the language used in
everyday dialogue included a high level of violence against others,
especially when talking about sectarian and ethnic identities.
It is clear that the years following the assassination of the late Prime
Minister Rafik Hariri were characterized by increased political
tension. In the aftermath of the assassination, the masses took to the
streets under the umbrella of their various sects.

The sudden eruption of violence multiplies the negative effect of the
anticipation that lacks certainty, which makes the psychological state
of the people even more fragile.

Jordan has also aligned against HAMAS, as it did years ago when its clash with the PLO left 25,000 or so dead inside Jordan's borders.
Jordan struggles daily to retain its Hashemite kingdom and still refuses its initial role as established by the original British Mandate as THE Palestinian State.There are still "honor" killingsin Jordan. A mass protest in Amman, Jordan, November 2012, over price hikes, with Maan,Jordan as the scene of violent protests in recent years, often reflecting Bedouin resentment, Jordan is no peaceful kingdom.
Jordan's economy continues to struggle, weighed down by a record deficit of $2 billion this year.Jordan has a history of persecuting activists and journalists. The
country amended its penal code in August 2010 and passed a Law of
Information System Crimes, to regulate the Internet. Revised laws
continue to criminalize peaceful expression and extend those provisions
to Internet expression. Jordanian authorities prosecuted peaceful
dissidents and prohibited peaceful gatherings to protest government
policies. Dissidents confined by the General Intelligence Department
routinely sign confessions. According to a report by Amnesty
International, intelligence agents in Jordan frequently use torture to
extract confessions from suspects.

TURKEY,POT-STIRRER OF THE MIDDLE EAST.May Day saw violent clashes between Turkish police and protesters who had been banned from gathering in Taksim Square.‘‘Those who think this violent unrest is against my friends, our
government, our political party and the people who voted for us, are
making a big mistake. This violence is against the people of this
country, against the freedom, the beliefs and the future of the people
of this country,’‘ Tayyip Erdogan said. Riots and unrest are common in Turkey, as is her meddling in wars in other Arab nations, especially in Syria.

On Thursday, Ankara was engaged in an intense effort to free 80 Turkish
nationals captured by the Sunni militant group Islamic State in Iraq and
al-Sham.
Alongside Iran, Turkey is the most involved in insuring continued in-fighting in the Middle east.Ankara has been criticized for turning a blind eye to foreign jihadists
crossing into Syria from Turkey's long and porous southern border to
fight against Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad.

Turkey seem to place no value on workers. Violence erupted in the industrial town of Soma, Turkey, the site of a mine collapse that killed at least 238 workers. Turkey's violence against women, its disturbing high numbers of domestic abuse cases, sums up its continued war on women.Even other Islamic nations who see wife-beating as the norm have pointed fingers at Turkey's abuse of women. WHAT DOES ALL THIS VIOLENCE IN THIS AREA OF THE WORLD TELL US?WHY IS VIOLENCE SO RAMPANT HERE FOR HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS OF YEARS?IT SEEMS THAT THE MIDDLE EAST HAS BEEN BURNING SINCE RECORDED TIME.WHY?THESE ARE A RELATED PEOPLE, THEY HAVE KINSHIP AMONGST THEM, YET THEY SEEM PRONE TO KILLING ONE ANOTHER FOR CENTURIES ON END!WHY?WHAT COULD MAKE BROTHER KILL BROTHER FOR SO LONG?